The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
As foot-and-mouth disease returns to discomfort both farmers and politicians, help is at hand from an unlikely source - super-cool Dutch practice MVRDV. Its latest exhibition features a film, Pig City , in which the porkers are accommodated in one of the practice's favourite high-rises. 'The animals will be better…
Lighter than air
My old friend Richard Murphy has passed the test to become a licensed micro-pilot. Now he really will be above it all.
look who’s talking
Congratulations to John Dawson of ALS Architects of London SW17 for his winning caption. This week's topical image shows politicians waving, not drowning, in the Thames by the Houses of Parliament. Captions on a postcard please by first thing Monday morning to: AJ Astragal, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4GB,…